Remember
when you learned those words? It was back when everything was simple.
The Pledge of Allegiance was written in 1892 by Francis Bellamy,
the circulation manager of the Boston based "The Youth's
Companion" magazine. The end of the Nineteenth Century was a much
simpler time. The world was a much simpler place. It not so simple
anymore.

When
we recite those seemingly patriotic words, what are we really pledging
our allegiance to? To the flag? To the United States? To the Republic
for which it stands?

If
we are to pledge our allegiance, let it be to an ideal. That ideal
should be the American way of life as prescribed by the Constitution.
The Constitution was designed to provide the essential ingredient in the
recipe for the American Dream. It provided the "roadmap" that
gave our forefathers the opportunity to make this country great. That
greatness was born out of the sweat and blood of a liberated citizenry.

...of
the United States of America.

Freedom
as a concept and an ideal is under attack in America. Liberty has lost
its meaning for many Americans. It often appears far less valuable than
it really is. All too often, the unthinking trade liberty for the
seductive illusion of security and stability. Just as Benjamin Franklin
warned us, in the end they are left with neither.

We
have reached a point where, once again, we must rely on the guidance of
our forefathers and their patriotic initiative.

Upon
reflection, it would seem that the "patriotism" exemplified by
the founders of the American Republic consists, in part, of an
allegiance, not to persons, not to offices, and not even to
institutions, but rather to political and moral ideals. Such ideals as
self-determination, the social contract, inalienable human rights, and
additional ideals such as those enumerated in the Declaration of
Independence and the Bill of Rights.

An
attempt at the decimation of the ideals of freedom and liberty is
currently being explored by an "Evil Corporation" that now
plans to rule the world.

And
to the Republic for which it stands,

Twenty-six-hundred
years ago, in Athens, two candidates ran for office. Each candidate
spent some of his own money buying votes. In every Democratic election
in history, there have been candidates who used their own money to buy
votes. Buying votes has always been an intrinsic part of every
Democratic System. It is one of the reasons why Democracies are
fundamentally flawed.

During
Franklin D. Roosevelt's terms in office, things changed substantially.
F.D.R. figured out a way to, in his mind, improve the system. Instead of
using his own money to buy votes, he would use the taxpayer's money.
This would change the face of American politics forever. By inventing
more and more social welfare programs, he effectively bought more and
more votes with the taxpayer's money. You can always find a bunch of
folks willing to vote for a handout. He, more than any other person in
our Nation's history, instigated a collectivist paradigm that would
mislead our country, and place us in the precarious position that we
find ourselves today.

Our
present day politicians have embraced the collectivist ploy of social
welfare, used it over and over again to get themselves elected and
re-elected, adopted it as "business as usual", and gone about
their ignoble pursuits with a "job security is job one"
mentality.

Government
is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the
expense of everybody else." -- Frederick Bastiat

Our
present system is a radical departure from the vision of the Founders.
They understood the ultimate folly of Democracy and rejected it as
unworkable. They knew that the majority would always vote for a free
ride. They knew that the herd mentality is not compatible with anything
nobel, and that conformity is the greatest single threat to liberty.

Freedom
and individualism, are the only ideological tenets that can lend to our
Country's salvation. It is the individual states that make up a
Republic. It is the individual persons that make up the state. Mankind's
potential is held within the core of every individual person, but that
potential becomes diluted exponentially as the collective mind set is
imposed and adopted.

Our
country is now controlled by Fabian Socialists. The "Neo
conservatives" are perhaps the most blatant perpetrators of the
Fabian Socialist agenda with their totalitarian legislation and their
reckless redistribution of our Nation's wealth through sovereignty
degradation with agreements like NAFTA and FTAA. This is the ultimate
result of the one
world vision of Cecil Rhodes.

Our
flag no longer seems to be standing for, or concerned with "the
Republic."

one
Nation,

The
name of the game is collectivism, the basic precepts of which promote an
ideology which dismisses nation, sovereignty, and individual liberties.
It also suppresses notions of an omnipotent presence which stand in the
way of our subservient indoctrination.

The
world is crumbling down around us. And not only economically. We have
allowed the orchestrated demise of the world as we know it by a group of
misguided, irresponsible power mongers.

Why
are these guys bad? Why do I often refer to these banksters as "the
Dark Side?" Is it simply due to the fact that they are driven
solely by a lust for power? While lust, avarice and greed are indeed
Basic Biblical Sins, many people lacking moral stamina fall prey to the
various turpitudes of modern society. While failure to resist the
temptations of the Basic Sins is a mark of diminished character, it is,
in itself, not all-damning.

No,
it is because of their lack of cohesive vision. They have attempted to
install themselves as the sole shot callers, attempting to rule the
world, with no other qualifications other than their membership in the
various "lucky sperm clubs." The passed down institutional
wealth that they have amassed, through generations of corruption and
successful financial manipulation, has skewed their sensibilities. The
ideals that may have seemed noble to their grandfathers have been set
aside. Their sole motive for world domination has digressed to one of
the lowest common denominator. Absolute greed, like absolute power,
corrupts absolutely. With no benevolent vision for the future, they have
systematically decimated the planet's resources. The resulting imbalance
is one that can now only be righted by the severe suffering of all of
humanity, including themselves. They are maniacs who have painted
humanity in to a corner that is, for all intents and purposes,
inescapable.

under
God,

In
June of 1954 an amendment was made to add the words "under
God" to the Pledge of Allegiance. Then-President Dwight D.
Eisenhower said "In this way we are reaffirming the transcendence
of religious faith in America's heritage and future; in this way we
shall constantly strengthen those spiritual weapons which forever will
be our country's most powerful resource in peace and war."

As
I stated above, the collectivist paradigm intentionally suppresses
notions of an omnipotent presence. How many of our cherished
institutions have been challenged, by law, to abandon the notion of an
Almighty?

The
greatest problems to consider, when attempting to deal with the Evil
Corporation, are three fold. First, the people that are calling the
shots, the Puppet Masters, stay behind the scenes and are rarely
accessible. Secondly, the front line individuals that serve this
alliance, (politicians, bureaucrats, academics, union organizers,
mainstream media, etc.), have been, for the most part, kept in the dark
when it comes to a real understanding of the ultimate agenda which
guides their labors and the subsequent dismantling of the U.S.
Constitution. And third, a pandemic apathy, which is the product of a
ninety year misinformation campaign, has brought about a lack of
opposition to this movement and has rendered the country, almost
hopelessly, in the grip of the abomination which is the New World Order.

indivisable,

Indivisable!
The Declaration of Independence spelled out, in no uncertain terms, our
right to division. "When in the course of human events,"
and so on. So now we must insure that the group prevails? That we do
everything in our power to keep the herd together?

But
wait. Enough of my ranting and raving. If you need evidence that the
afore mentioned facts are true, and that collectivism is our main enemy,
please refer to the research of an expert, G. Edward Griffin. His
series, The
Future is Calling will provide the foundation for most of what I
have previously stated.

There
are solutions to the problems we face. Most will require commitment,
dedication, and sacrifice. But there is one part of the solution that is
relatively painless. Although relatively painless, it is incredibly
important. It is a simple act and it will only require your passive
involvement. No armed insurrection necessary. Once you understand the
source of their power, you will understand this part of the solution. So
let me pose an analogy.

Suppose
you go to a casino. If you are paying attention, you will notice that
everyone is playing with chips. Why? Because the owners of the casino
know that their customers, (marks), seem to be more willing to play
their games with chips, rather than cash. They have, at least
temporarily, demonetized Federal Reserve Notes, (FRNs), by substituting
chips. Now let's take this situation to the extreme. Suppose you could
buy everything you needed in the casino. Food, clothing, shelter,
everything. And you could pay for everything with chips. Now lets
additionally suppose that you could also work in the casino, and they
paid you with chips. Stay with me here. Let's additionally suppose that
you lived there all your life, that you raised your family there and
that your kids raised their families there. Eventually, no one would
have any need of FRNs. The casino would have successfully demonetized
cash and would obviously be in control of the manufacture and issuance
of chips. With the production of more chips, they could easily dilute
the value of the chips you had already amassed. With that control they
would have achieved absolute power in the casino. No matter whether you
won or lost, they would win. They would rule the microeconomic world of
the casino.

Hey,
that's exactly what the collectivist owners of the Federal Reserve
started doing in 1913. For an update on that debacle please see The
Nature of Money by yours truly. Instead of a casino, they used a
whole country to get it started. They progressively got everyone to
forget about gold and silver, to dismiss them as, in the words of John
Maynard Keynes, "barbarous relics". They didn't want people to
use gold and silver for money because they couldn't manufacture it
themselves.

They
could, however, manufacture as many FRNs as they wanted. At the Breton
Woods conference of 1945, they expanded the size of their
"casino" to include most of the world.

The
verdict of history must be that the Federal Reserve has failed dismally.
Far from making financial crises impossible, as it initially promised,
the Fed, in league with the Bank
of England, intentionally engineered the first Great Depression, and
it is about to present us with a Super Depression, which, IMO, will
ultimately result in worldwide economic disintegration.

As
the economic disintegration unfolds, all forms of savings will be
decimated. Notional long term obligations like pensions are already
failing as the underwriters fail. Institutional debt will be next. Social
Security and Medicare are no longer sustainable. In the next two years
we will watch as FRNs are so radically diluted that our economy will
begin to mirror the Weimar Republic. This is all part of of the
Collectivist's ploy for world domination. Tear the whole thing down and
rebuild it in the Fabian Socialist's vision.

"The
only difference between Communists and Fabians is a question of tactics.
They may compete over which of them will dominant the coming New World
Order, over who will hold the highest positions in the pyramid of
collectivist power; they may even send opposing armies into battle to
establish territorial pre-eminence over portions of the globe, but they
never quarrel over goals. Through it all, they are blood brothers under
the skin, and they will always unite against their common enemy, which
is any opposition to collectivism." --Taken from G. Edward
Griffin's essay The
Grand Deception, a second look at the war on terrorism.

If
you are not already familiar with the Fabian Society and its
aspirations, please refer to Carroll Quigley's
examination, The
Anglo-American Establishment. The essence of the Fabian's
agenda was incorporated in a stained glass window that hung in the Web
House, a location that served as the group's original headquarters, in
Surrey, England. It is that famous line from Omar Khayyam: "Dear
love, couldst thou and I with fate conspire to grasp this sorry scheme
of things entire, would we not shatter it to bits and then remould it
nearer to the hearts desire?" Please read that line again. It
is the key to modern history, and it is the key to the war on terrorism:
"Dear love, couldst thou and I with fate conspire to grasp this
sorry scheme of things entire, would we not shatter it to bits and then
remould it nearer to the hearts desire?"

A
further dissection of the Collectivist's agenda provides us with a
glimpse of their vision; "War is the best way to remold society.
War! Shatter society to bits. Break it apart. Then we can remold it
nearer to the heart�s desire. And what is our heart�s desire?
Collectivism."

The
ramifications of the their actions are so mind blowing in scope, that
confronting them is beyond the capacity of most, including those who
mindlessly abetted the implementation of their plan.

The
only thing that "We the People" can do is to take on the
individual responsibility of recognizing the problem and dealing with it
at the source. Admittedly the problem has become almost insurmountable,
but it still must be dealt with at the source.

The
source of the problem was the initial demonetization of gold and silver
which took place between 1913 and 1945. A large part of the solution is
the remonetization of gold and silver today. Ownership of gold and
silver is what empowers a bold and contrarian few to take control of
large amounts of capital. Ownership of gold and silver is what will
empower the masses to throw off the tyrannical bonds of fiat, and
replace them with our Constitutionally mandated monetary system, thus
protecting the tenets of freedom and liberty, and insuring a future for
our children and grandchildren.

with
Liberty and Justice for all.

The
time has come for us to step up to the plate and do our patriotic duty.

Patriotism
is a love of and loyalty to one's country. A patriot is someone who
loves, supports, and is prepared to serve their country.

The
word patriotism comes from a Greek word meaning fatherland. For most of
history, love of fatherland or homeland was an attachment to the
physical features of the land. But that notion changed in the eighteenth
century, when the ideals of personal freedoms and liberty strongly
emerged into political thought. Patriotism was still a love of one's
country that included connections to the land and people, but then also
included its customs and traditions, pride in its history, and devotion
to its welfare.

Today
most people agree that patriotism also involves service to their
country, but many disagree on how to best perform such service. Some
believe that the national government speaks for a country; therefore,
all its citizens should actively support government policies and
actions. Others argue that a true patriot speaks out when convinced that
their country is following an unwise or unjust action.

"Throughout
history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the
indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the
voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for
evil to triumph." -- Haile Selassie

When
was the last time that you acted in a manner that would help insure your
personal liberties and freedoms? When have you acted in a manner that
did not simply depend on the Government to protect and take care of you.
The solution will come as a result of our individual actions. There are
no groups on our side. The larger the group, the larger the problem.

I
will be forever imploring you to own up to your individual patriotic
responsibilities. One easy way is for you to do this is to purchase
physical gold and silver bullion. In reality, compared to the amount of
fiat currency in circulation, there is so little bullion available for
purchase, that a concerted effort on your part could send the value of
gold, and just as importantly silver, to the moon.

By
participating in this simple, passive action, we can be part of the
solution and avail ourselves a chance to survive the mind-boggling
catastrophe that lies ahead. We are faced with an epic struggle against
the tyranny of false money. Gold and silver are assets that are not
borne out of someone else�s debt or liability. Debt based money is
abusable and will, therefore, always be abused. Like the children in a
dysfunctional family, we have been severely abused. Denial is not a
river in Africa.

History
records that the money changers have used every form of abuse, intrigue,
deceit, and violent means possible to maintain their control over
governments by controlling money and it's issuance. -- James Madison

Besides
enriching ourselves through the exercise of buying and owning gold and
silver, we can passively bring about some very important changes in one
way that will really make a difference. As the price of bullion
subsequently rises, more and more people will begin to see Federal
Reserve Notes for what they really are; fake money, and recognize and
appreciate precious metals for what the really are; real money.

If
one half of one percent of Americans each went out and bought ten ounces
of silver, that would amount to 14,000,000 ounces of silver. COMEX has
much less than 100,000,000 ounces of silver available. That much buying
pressure would have an explosive effect on the price. This could force
the hand of the cartel and help change the world for the better.

Get
the word out. A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle.
Consider it your patriotic and moral imperative.

Buy
gold and silver.

It's
not what you don't know that will screw you up, it's what you know that
is wrong. The spin you hear from the mainstream media is intended to
mislead you. Open your eyes and face the future. If you leave your head
in the sand and ignore it, you are only leaving your butt exposed for
the world to kick. This all may sound like gloom and doom, but when you
get a handle on what is going to happen, you will have a future filled
with opportunity. Fortune favors the Informed.

Kenneth Parsons, aka Johnny Silver Bear, is an IT professional in Garland, Texas and the President of Silver Bear Communications, Inc. Mr. Parsons has been involved in the advertising and promotion industry for over twenty-five years. He is the editor of the Silver
Bear Cafe and, as such, is responsible for shaping the content of "The Bear." Mr. Parsons has served as CEO for Fiberscape Communications, Inc., a web site development / hosting and streaming multi-media company in Richardson, Texas since 1997. He is a Jeffersonian and a passionate supporter of the U.S. Constitution. He is also an outspoken advocate of gold money and equal tax rates. You can contact Mr. Parsons with questions or comments via email.